CHAPTER 47
Heavy cannonball fire continued to bombard the first level of the underwater prison of Impel Down.
Frank G, captain of the coated pirates, has initiated a full-scale invasion of the prison to break out his crew.
Frank's coated pirates and allies battle Impel Down officers and marines outside the prison as they try to force their way in.
250 allied ships of Frank were ordered to fire cannonballs at the prison nonstop until Frank emerged with his crew, this of course was causing major damage to the prison and taking a fair share of lives, allies and enemies.
Inside Impel Down, Frank stood over the warden and vice warden.
"You've.. come to pick up a few demons?" Hannyabal weakly asked.
Frank, a smile on his face and arms crossed, looked over at the warden.
"Hannyabal? I didn't even realize that was you I just pulverized! Fee hee ha ha ha! You were just standing next to Magellen and I assumed you were an ally of his! My my how you've let yourself go!" Frank joked.
"What the hell do you want!" Hannyabal asked.
Frank, arms still crossed, continued to stare down at the warden. Cannon fire continued to destroy the building outside as the men spoke.
"You have some men of mine locked away and if you could kindly tell me where they were I can go get them and get out your hair!" Frank said.
Magellan stood to his feet.
"What makes you think we'd actually give in to those demands?" Magellan asked.
Frank looked over at Magellan with a confused face.
"You launch a cowardly ambush against this great prison, killing many officers, and damaging the pride of the government… and you expect us to give in to what you want!?" Magellan raged.
Frank licked his lips and smiled at the vice warden.
"THOSE MEN WILL ROT IN THIS PRISON! AS VICE WARDEN OF IMPEL DOWN, I GIVE MY WORD THAT YOU WON'T EVEN GET CLOSE TO THOSE MEN!" Magellan yelled.
Hannyabal, now fired up, stood up to his feet and slammed his staff on the ground.
Frank smiled at this as well. Magellan's body became covered in poison as he stared at Frank G with intense rage.
Hannyabal got in a stance and pointed his staff towards Frank. Outside the prison the coated pirates were making progress.
"GUAHHHH!" A marine yelled as he was cut down.
"Men! We must keep pushing forward! Captain Frank is to save our superiors at all costs!" A pirate yelled.
"YEAHHHHHH!" The coated pirates yelled as they charged into the prison.
Frank looked back and smiled as the men ran into the building.
"CAPTAIN FRANK! YOU GO AHEAD WE'LL DEAL WITH THE WARDENS!" A pirate yelled, blasting a cannonball from a cannon he had over his shoulder.
The cannonball came straight for Magellan, but he was unfazed.
"Hydra!" Magellan yelled, conjuring a poison dragon to swallow the cannonball whole and come straight for the coated pirates and Frank.
"IT'S THE HYDRA! MEN GET AWAY!" A coated pirate yelled.
The hydra charged through the halls swallowing any pirate in the way. Frank jumped to the side and barely out of the way of the poison dragon.
Many his men were swallowed by the hydra and filled with poison. Frank, behind a wall, watched as two more poison dragon heads came from Magellan's body.
Hannyabal and Magellan guarded the door to the next level.
"Damn! I wasn't expecting to have to deal with Magellan this early in the invasion! Why do the lowest class fighters have to have such powerful devil fruits…" Frank thought to himself as he looked into his pocket and grabbed his transponder snail.
The fleet of 250 allied ships continued their bombing of the prison while on Frank's main ship a man stepped up.
The man wore silver sleeveless armor and silver armor shorts. He also had silver arm and leg guards. He had short brown hair and brown eyes. He looked to be at least twenty-three years of age.
He also wore a black coat, with the coated pirates jolly roger on the back, draped over his shoulders like a cape. He stared over the prison as it was slowly blown away by the continuous cannon fire.
Purupurupurupuru! Purupurupurupuru! Purupurupurupuru!
The man reached into his pocket and pulled out a transponder snail that was red in color and wore a pirate captain's hat with fluffy hair underneath. The man answered the snail.
"Yes, captain?" The man answered.
Frank began to speak through the snail.
"SEIYA! MAGELLAN'S GOT THE DOOR TO LEVEL 1 BLOCKED! GET HIM OUT THE WAY AND I CAN HANDLE THE REST! ALSO SEND IN TWO SHIPS FROM THE ALLIED FORCES TO RAID THE PRISON WITH ORDERS TO FREE EVERY PRISONER THEY SEE!" Frank yelled.
Clack-up. The snail was hung up and went back to sleep.
"SAINT" SEIYA
SNIPER FOR THE COATED PIRATES
BOUNTY: 1,200,600,00
Seiya hung up the transponder snail and set it down. He then proceeded to take off his bow and load up. Seiya picked up the transponder snail again and used it to broadcast an order to the allied ships.
"Attention allied ships. Captain Frank has asked me to send two more ships to aid the raid inside the prison. Ships #30 and #12 are to leave the world serpent formation and charge the prison the instant my arrow lands. That is all." Seiya said, as he hung up the snail.
Ships 30 and 12 stopped firing and brought up their anchors. Seiya inserted an arrow into his bow and cocked it back.
He closed his eyes for a moment, and everything became black. A turquoise trail showed him the path he needed to shoot the arrow to shoot through the crowd without hurting any allies. He opened his eyes.
"Right there." Seiya said.
Seiya took another moment to aim and then fired his arrow across the water. The arrow sped at supersonic speeds.
As the arrow went through the battlefield his accuracy and observation haki was shown to be extremely powerful as the arrow narrowly avoided touching a single person, at one point, even going through a little gap between the arms of a pirate getting ready to slice down an officer.
The arrow kept speeding until it finally went inside the prison. The wind from the speed it picked up blew prisoners back into their cells.
"What the hell was that!?"
"I don't know I couldn't even see it!"
Frank smiled as the arrow flew by. The arrow finally was on route to Magellan and Hannyabal.
The latter stood at the door and winced when they noticed something coming.
At the last moment it was revealed to be the arrow, but it was coming too fast to stop. Magellan and Hannyabal flinched, but nothing happened.
They both looked around but didn't see anything.
"Vice warden! Did you feel that?" Hannyabal asked.
"Yes, I did. Whatever it was, it missed big time. We'll continue to guard this door with our lives!" Magellan yelled, "COME OUT WHEREVER YOU ARE FRANK G! WE KNOW YOU'RE STILL IN HERE!"
As Magellan finished his sentence, Frank G came around the corner, walking towards the two smiling demonically, his eyes hidden behind shadows.
"There you are coward! Are you ready to give up? It's either that or die right here!" Hannyabal taunted.
"Even better Frank, if you give up now, we'll lock you up with your buddies. Deal?" Magellan said.
Frank looked up and stared at the door, still smiling. Magellan started to get agitated while Hannyabal started to get nervous.
"He's not stopping! What does he have planned?" Hannyabal said, readying his staff.
Magellan's vein popped out his head.
"Grrrr! HYDR-."
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMMM
A massive explosion blew away the door from the other side and launched Hannyabal and Magellan towards the pirate captain.
Frank jumped up and kicked Hannyabal in the stomach and grabbed his legs. He then swung him into Magellan and the two crashed into a wall.
Frank landed and began running down the steps to level 1.
On the water allied ships 30 and 12 were already on route to the prison. After a moment they docked and hundreds of pirates stormed the docks.
"THE ALLIES ARE HERE! NO NEED TO CONTINUE THIS FIGHTING, COATED PIRATES! FOLLOW FRANK-SAN INTO THE PRISON WE'LL DEAL WITH THE FODDER!"
"WE'VE ALSO BEEN GIVEN INSTRUCTIONS TO FREE ANY AND ALL INMATES!"
The coated pirates cheered and forced their way out of the crowd and let the allies handle the officers and marines.
"Come, men! We have to catch up to Captain Frank!"
The coated pirates made their way into the prison in a huge crowd.
"A large crowd of us will follow the captain! The rest of you free as many prisoners as you can!"
Over in a corner Magellan and Hannyabal slowly came to and stood to their feet rubbing their heads. Both were heavily bruised.
"How did… how did… the door blow up from behind us?" Hannyabal asked.
Magellan thought back to it.
FLASHBACK
Magellan and Hannyabal flinched as the object seemed to be ready to hit them, but nothing happened. Little did they know, the arrow was fired through a conveniently arrow sized hole in the door and landed in a wall not far from the other side of the door.
END OF FLASHBACK
"He had to have fired his projectile through or past the door in some way!" Magellan yelled.
"How is that possible!?" Hannyabal asked.
"There's only one man capable of that… GRRRR!" Magellan growled.
"Saint" Seiya... a powerful archer who's observation haki is the stuff of legend..." Magellan said.
Hannyabal flinched.
"D-Doesn't... the government... want over one billion berries for that guy?!.."
Magallen nodded slowly.
"It's rumored... he's got special blood in him.. but those are.. only rumors I've heard.." Magellan said.
Hannyabal groaned.
Out on the water, Seiya stared at the prison as cannonballs continued to reduce it to rubble, bit by bit.
Magellan looked up at the coated pirates making their way through the prison on the way to level 1.
"Level 1 is just down those stairs!" A pirate said.
The pirate became silent though as Magellan towered over him and the rest of the coated pirates.
"M…M… IT'S MAGELLAN! EVERYONE GET BACK!"
"And where do you think you're going!? Not one other man will get to level 1! I'll put my life on the line for it!" Magellan yelled.
Magellan loaded up something in his mouth and chewed for a moment before spitting out three bubbles at high speeds.
"CHLORO BALL!" Magellan yelled as he spit chloroform balls at the coated pirates and hitting a few of them.
Their bodies burned and sizzled.
"AHHHH WHAT IS THIS?"
"THE PAIN IS TOO MUCH!"
"AHHHHHHHHHHH!"
The coated pirates watched as their fellow crew fell to the mercy of Magellan, who was covered in poison yet again.
"HANNYABAL! YOU GET TO AN INTERCOM AND ORDER THE GUARDS OF LEVELS 1-5 TO GATHER ALL THE OFFICERS THEY HAVE AND GUARD THEIR RESPECTIVE LEVELS! TELL THEM IT'S FRANK G OF THE COATED PIRATES AND TO BE READY IN CASE HE COMES FOR THEM!" Magellan ordered.
"Uh yes sir! Wait sir? I'm your boss I thought?" Hannyabal said.
"DAMN IT GET TO IT OR WE'LL ALL DIE IN THIS ATTACK!" Magellan yelled.
"RIGHT! ON IT MAGELLAN!" Hannyabal said before running off.
Coated pirates brought two cannons into the prison.
"Not so fast! Warden Hannyabal!" A coated pirate yelled, lighting the fuse to the cannon.
The cannon fired and a cannonball came straight for Hannyabal, but Magellan slapped it back at the pirates, causing an explosion near a cell blowing away some coated pirates. Hannyabal used the opportunity to run away.
"HYDRA!" Magellan yelled, sending his poison dragon heads all around the room to scoop up and devour the invading pirates.
"GET AWAY FROM THE DRAGON HEADS!"
Magellan roared and got ready to launch another attack but was hit by three arrows in rapid succession. Two to his chest and one hitting his diaphragm. The coated pirates used the opportunity to attack Magellan.
"FIRE!"
Two cannonballs were fired at the vice warden, the cannonballs exploded on Magellan's body and head. Magellan began to slowly fall back, but kept his balance, however two more cannonballs hit his body, this knocked the vice warden down to one knee.
Magellan, now a bloody and beaten mess, looked up through blurry eyes and saw coated pirates running towards him.
"St…. stop… right there…" Magellan said weakly.
"Still alive vice warden!? We'll fix that for you!" A coated pirate yelled.
Magellan shot his head up and spit a jet of liquid poison at the pirate and shot down a few more before he was sliced down the back, cutting off one of his wings.
"VICE WARDEN!" An officer yelled, before being cut down himself.
Magellan held his head up in pain as blood dripped down his face and came out his mouth. After a moment another coated pirate gave Magellen a slice down the side of his neck.
"GRGH!" Magellan groaned as he covered his wound and fell over.
On Frank G's main boat, Seiya loaded another arrow.
Magellan breathed heavily as he was kicked and punched by the pirates on their way deeper into the prison.
He looked up one more time and saw an arrow coming straight for his left eye, he widened his eyes as the arrow eventually seemed to get him.
LEVEL 6
Booming could be heard as well as vibrations from the onslaught of cannon fire supplied by Frank's 250 allied ships.
"Seems to be getting pretty hectic up there…" Branch said with a smile.
"It would seem that way." Renji added.
Rationingu and Yugami stayed silent.
Footsteps could be heard getting closer to Renji and company's cell.
Renji opened his eyes and looked up at the five demon guards: Minotaurus, Minokoala, Minorhinoceros, Minozebra, and Minochiuahua, Chief guard Sadi and Head Jailer Domino.
"Coated pirate members: Renji, Branch, and Rationingu! Listen up!" Domino said.
Renji closed his eyes again and Branch continued to smile. Rationingu smirked and Yugami continued to keep his head down.
"Orders from the Vice warden are to stay here in level six of Impel Down to prevent pirate Frank G Junior from breaking you out." Domino said.
Renji's eyes shot open, Branch picked his head up and smiled even bigger, and Rationingu's head snapped over to look at the head jailer, Yugami looked up just barely.
"We understand that you are three high ranking members of his pirate crew the Coated Pirates! We will not allow that man to free scum like you!" Domino yelled.
"You'd do best to watch your mouth." Renji said coldly.
Domino shook.
"WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU'RE TALKING TO!?" Domino yelled.
"You can hear the fear in her voice… it makes me excited." Branch said.
Rationingu smiled.
"Don't say things you can't back up, Head Jailer Domino." Renji said with an intense glare on his face.
Domino continued to shake more until she heard the intercom.
"Attention! attention! All Impel Down staff! This is a level 10 emergency! All guards stop what you are doing and be prepared to defend your respective levels! All head jailers and chief guards meet me on level 4 in my office! NOW!" Hannyabal yelled.
Domino and Said looked at each other.
"Stay here my pretties and if anyone comes down here that isn't Impel Down staff… smash them to pieces!" Sadi yelled.
"Chief guard Sadi let's go! The demon guards can stop them if they attempt to get out, even though they'd be wise not to." Domino said, running off with Sadi.
The demon guards stood in front of the coated pirate's cell with their weapons in arms. Inside the cell Renji continued to meditate until he heard a "pssst" noise. Renji looked over to another cell across from theirs and stared into the darkness of it.
"If anyone is trying to get my attention make yourself known." Renji said.
Slowly a man with pretty boy brown hair and purple eyes crawled over to the cell door and looked out of it. Renji continued to stare at the man.
"Is it… is it true? Are you really the missing half of the crew of the infamous coated pirates?" The man asked.
Renji continued to stare at the man with an angry look.
"Who's asking?" Renji asked.
The man pushed up his glasses.
"My name is Yamashiro Todao… I've been quite infatuated with your crew for a long time!" Yamashiro said.
"Hmph, and what makes us so special?" Renji asked.
"Do you really need me to explain? First and foremost, your captain is THE Frank G Junior! "The Devil's First Born" his name is known over all four seas! His power and accomplishments are revered by many young people who want to be pirates!" Yamashiro explained.
"Were you a pirate?" Renji asked.
"No… no I wasn't actually… but I've always wanted to be!" Yamashiro said.
"The fact you're locked away in level 6 of the world's greatest prison proves you are willing to do truly heinous crimes." Renji said.
Yamashiro pushed up his glasses.
"Well… to be honest with you, Mr. Renji… I'm down here for one crime and one crime only… this one crime was enough to warrant me a bounty of 1,000,000,000 Berries!" Yamashiro confessed.
Renji was mildly surprised by the revelation.
"What-What could you have possibly done to amass such a bounty? I'd be lying if I said you even looked a little threatening…" Renji said.
Yamashiro smiled.
"I-I'm not threatening in the slightest, but those are usually the deadliest type of people right, Renji?" Yamashiro asked.
Renji continued to watch Yamashiro.
"Before I committed my crime I was a chef. And a good one! At the young age of 21 I went on tours for my food to be tried by people around the world. I amassed fame and fortunes most could only dream of!" Yamashiro explained.
Renji stared.
"And how does someone like that end up in a place like this?" Renji asked.
Yamashiro smiled.
"One day… I was invited to the Holy Land of Marie Jois to cook for the five elders… I loved my life and fame but I always thought back to my kid days of wanting to be a famous pirate and leading my own crew… a magical life… no one telling you what to do!" Yamashiro went on, "So I concocted a plan…"
Renji and the coated pirates listened in.
"I attempted to assassinate the gorosei with poisoned food!" Yamashiro yelled.
Every prisoner in the room heard the confession and were filled with shock.
Renji and the coated pirates were shocked as well that someone like this would even attempt something like that.
"But you were found out?" Renji asked.
Yamashiro took off his glasses and wiped them on his jail clothes.
"Yeah… of course they had taste testers... the taste testers died and I ran... I was arrested by the Admiral of the time and sentenced to death by the government.. I've been in this damn prison being tortured every day… for 10 long years Renji… I'm so tired of this… I just want to be free… and I know for a fact that your captain can do that for me!" Yamashiro yelled.
Renji stared at him when all of a sudden Yamashiro grabbed on the cage doors and started to let tears fall.
"PLEASE RENJI! WHEN FRANK MAKES IT HERE TO FREE YOU… PLEASE ASK HIM IF I CAN JOIN HIS CREW!" Yamashiro begged.